Modern antiques : the material past in England, 1660-1780 /

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Modern Antiques argues that the reinvention of the past was fundamental to the development of modernity in England during the long eighteenth century. Bringing together the fields of literary criticism, historiography, material culture studies, and book history, Kalter offers new interpretations of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalter, Barrett
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.
Colección:Transits (Bucknell University)
Temas:
1500-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature and history > England.
Chronology in literature.
Time in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Angleterre.
Temps dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
English literature > Early modern.
Literature and history.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the time bound and the modern antique
  • The "Cobweb-law" and the Fundamental law: history, chronology and poetic license
  • Chaucer ancient and modern: standardization, modernization, and the eighteenth-century reception of The Canterbury tales
  • DIY Gothic: Thomas Gray and the Medieval revival
  • Horace Walpole's fugitive pieces: collecting and ephemerality.

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